I didn’t notice any slowness in connection after sleep/suspend, but I can’t say I was overly paying attention.

How about this - I configured Kate to have full Markdown support, with preview.

There was an update today. The Document Preview plugin got disabled and once I enabled it, it’s no longer able to display Markdown preview.

That’s what I call “unstable”. Shit randomly breaking for no reason at all. And I know it’s probably SOME dependency SOMEWHERE that got updated which broke a DIFFERENT dependency, but that’s kind of my point - things like this just don’t happen on Windows (since around Win10).

Do you get a window?

I run games in full screen mode, so maybe it would work. Seems like Wayland has Ctrl+Meta+Esc as the equivalent of xkill. I’ll try this if it happens again.

To me “stable” means: “fire and forget”. Maybe a reboot needed every couple of months because something broke, or having to kill a hung process. That’s my experience with Windows nowadays.

I’m on Garuda Linux, which is based on Arch Zen, and every now and again something random breaks. Network connection doesn’t stand up after sleep. Steam randomly breaks. Signal refuses to connect. One monitor’s brightness doesn’t go back to default value after the OS dimmed it due to inactivity. Uninstalled application still shows up in Application Launcher’s search results, even though I deleted it from the KDE Menu Editor.

Lots and lots of little things like that.

Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven’t figured out which task to kill to kill a game it’s running.

More stable

Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.

I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.

Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.

Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.

Hey, thanks for your comment! Someone on Reddit was able to help out, I posted the solution in the OP.

If I remember right, no. If I clean boot, load sddm, immediately type my password and log in, then I have to wait a while for the mouse to start working.

But if I clean boot, load sddm, wait the same 5-10 seconds, then the mouse starts working on the login screen and then just continues to work once logged in.

Yikes…

I have the feeling you don’t play much non-popular games.

Such as?

Are you 12?

run into that shit on windows, too. and theres not compatability layers to blame, there.

I honestly cannot remember the last time I had trouble running anything on Windows. Probably around early Windows 7? It’s been years.

and shit doesnt crash on windows? All protons in the world arent going to fix a games inherent bugs that make it crash.

Mate, come on… If a game crashes on Windows, you know it’s the game’s or the driver’s fault.

If a game crashes on Linux, it might be the game’s fault, or the driver’s fault, or the virtualiser’s fault, or the virtualised driver’s fault, or maybe a config file somewhere has something commented for no reason, or maybe you just rebooted and forgot to re-mount the secondary drive, or maybe a billion other reasons.

Gaming on Linux is MUCH better than it used to be, but pretending that it’s anywhere near Windows’ level of “fire and forget” is just being silly.

OK… You do understand the difference between distribution and version, right?

You need to have a 5 year old distribution with no updates whatsoever to be at risk of losing Steam.

So, what exactly is the problem here?

How do you usually deal with that aspect? What I do is to make the documentation easily skimmable (for advanced readers) and just accept the need for rework.

Confluence’s “Expand” element. Make everything into an easy to read task-list, but if more details are necessary, just expand a step and get an “idiot proof” description. Bookstack allows that as well, even better, because you can nest them (Confluence had that up until they “updated” the editor and killed half the features).

EDIT: “Include Page” in Confluence also works wonders here. For example, I have an article describing how to RDP to our AD server. In all articles that describe a process that needs to be done on the AD server, I just include that page. If any connection details change, I just edit the original article and the changes immediately propagate to all the other instances.

I write mine with a simple mindset: “imagine we go outside with a net, catch a random person off the street, sit them at the PC and tell them to do X. Will they manage, following this documentation?”

I also number every step (even if they’re stupidly simple and could technically be jumbled into a single sentence), so that when a user calls me asking for help with something documented, all I need to do is ask them “at which step of the instructions are you encountering the problem”, and then they hang up because they never read the instructions in the first place. Saves a lot of hassle!

do you have nvidia?

AMD. The distro I had did something weird where I was getting around 10-15 FPS on the Desktop until I added the community repos and installed drivers from there. Everything was great until I realised that Steam stopped working at all and Heroic Launcher wouldn’t launch any games. After hopping over to Garuda, everything is fine-ish. Every now and again I launch something like Hogwarts Legacy and just need to reboot because nothing loads after the disclaimers. Still haven’t figured out how to launch Mafia DE. Etc., etc.

i’m going to push back on this a bit (…) gaming on Linux isn’t like it was 10 years ago

I’m not arguing that, I myself said that it’s great today with things like Proton.

But saying that it’s “better than on Windows” is just flat out insanity.

but that isn’t Linux’s fault, it’s theirs.

Average Joe doesn’t care who’s fault it is, just that he can’t play his favourite game without issues or terminal hacking.

What was that promise Valve made some years ago? That they’d keep Steam running regardless of the OS version?

You, umm, got a source for that? Because that sounds like an insane promise to make.

Thank you for being the sane one.

I’ve recently stumbled upon a lot of people like whoever wrote the article, rampaging all over the place, going “Linux is more user-friendly than Windows”, which is just an insane thing to say.

Linux is great, I love my Garuda to bits. But games are still optimised for Windows, we still need to use compatibility layers to get them running, and even though it’s gotten MUCH easier these days, there’s still a lot of titles that require tweaking/hacking. And some just refuse to run, period.

And then you have all the hardware compatibility issues that come with manufacturers just not supporting stuff. I can’t turn my GPU’s RGB off without Windows. I had to distro-hop to get the GPU drivers working correctly (it might be a “skill issue”, but that just proves the point, I think). Even titles that are marked as Gold on ProtonDB sometimes crash or refuse to run randomly.

Hmm… There’s a connector from the card to 3-pin connector on the motherboard, but the description in the manual suggests that it only allows me to control RGB through it. As in: if I don’t connect it, they’ll just be on in whatever default state they’re in and that’s that.

I’ll look into this, thanks!

Oh, nice! Thanks for the info!